Election day is soon for Americans. Every election and every race are important. The midterm elections are especially important as they effect which party controls Congress. Each elected official matters.…
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Voting Information Websites Roundup – Midterms Edition
Oppression is Not Peace
Within the last few days there has been a great deal of information coming out of Iran about the state-sanctioned beating and murder of a woman named Jîna Amini. It…
Read MoreStopping Anti-Asian Violence and Hate: What Can We Do?
Xiao Zhen Xie, 76, was waiting to cross a street when a 39-year-old man socked her in the eye. Despite pain and shock, she fought back. How shameful, these racist…
Read More30 Days of Vigilance
Now that the United States presidential elections are over and have ended with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris being declared the winners, the next step is ensuring a smooth and…
Read MoreVoting Information Websites Roundup
The 2020 US Election is especially important. From the presidential election all the way down to local races. One of the best things that we as citizens can do to…
Read MoreBlack American Women Pioneers for Suffrage
LPF Forgotten Heroine Series Alice McCain, August 7, 2020 <Sojourner Truth Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (c1893)> Sojourner Truth. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Mary Ann…
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter Resources
Image from Wikimedia Commons. At LPF we are committed to racial justice. But we recognize that we as an organization have a lot of shortcomings. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in…
Read MoreThe Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
A hopeful development happening right now is the Poor People’s Campaign, co-launched on May 14, 2018 by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Rev. William J. Barber II, the architect of…
Read MoreFerguson, Responding to the Continuing Tragedy
The grand jury has decided to not charge the police officer who shot and killed an unarmed teen in the Ferguson suburb of St. Louis three months ago. The decision…
Read MoreFrom Ferguson to Real Change
There has been a deluge of reporting and commentary on the killing of an unarmed black teen in the Ferguson suburb of St Louis, and on the protests that followed. …
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